Also, the early stages of the internet went through development at publicly funded universities.
Hilarious when people say stuff like "capitalism gave us the internet". Capitalism has done everything in its power to hold back the internet, which is based on free exchange, cooperation, and open protocols. Capitalism has tried to lock down, destroy, and sabotage every step.
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Like literal all technology. Capitalism did nothing but profit from publicly funded science.
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And it was workers that made it, and these workers were state-funded.
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State, military and college pretty much...
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And DARPA in association with academia gave us the Internet. So government and university “elites” funded by taxes gave us the Internet.
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I’d started typing this out then realized someone had probably already pointed out that government had a huge role in creating the internet. So i tip my hat to you, sirpic.twitter.com/ZL0M48wXbE
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Markets are based on "free exchange" and "cooperation"
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No, they are based on metered exchange and competition. People just giving stuff to other people is not a market.
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Exactly. Read Surveillance Valley by
@yashalevine
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